Anthonystjoseph Dot Com

Anthonystjoseph Dot Com

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     So, about a year or so ago, maybe longer, I noticed that Yahoo and everybody else who offers Web Hosting Services was offering these services at much lower price than what I was paying.  One company I was associated with had just purchased a hosting plan at FIVE DOLLARS a month.  This made me feel like a really bad shopper since I had been paying almost thirteen dollars a month for my Web Hosting plan at Yahoo.  I really don’t ever feel like dealing with computer issues because computers are not my forte.  I finally gathered the mental energy to call Yahoo and ask about this and I was brusquely informed that those prices weren’t available to their OLD customers.

     Now wait a minute…  You are telling me that for over a year you’ve been selling services at lower prices and charging loyal customers like myself higher prices…  These NEW customers weren’t getting special pricing for a few months or an introductory trail period; they were getting these prices as permanent monthly payments!  Let me help you understand the idiocy of this from a consumer point of view.  If I come to your fruit stand EVERY day for six years and buy an apple for a dollar every day and then I find out you have been selling the guy in front of me the same APPLE for fifty cents because he HASN’T been coming to your for SIX YEARS then what kind of FOOL am I?  And what kind of FOOL are you for not recognizing the loyalty of six years…

     You better ask Direct TV how I handle bad business practices.  The point I’m trying to get to is that Anthonystjoseph Dot Com is under construction because I told Yahoo to get the HOOK!  I own my domain name until the Earth will change its own name so I am not worried about that part of it, but it will take me a while to gather the right-side brain energy to rebuild my site and I might just link it to this blog while I’m busy…  I have the book to finish and I cannot spend too much energy on that right now.  ‘Cut off my nose to spite my face’, that’s a part of being the human race.

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Direct TV: My Media Pimp

                                                                                                                   

Direct TV: My Media Pimp

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     For a year or so now I have been contemplating and planning an exit strategy from the high cost of cable due to two reasons.  First off, I think it’s too expensive to pay anyone around a hundred dollars a month just to watch television.  When I grew up we had four channels that were free and we were fine.  Secondly, I have a book that I only have six or so chapters to finish and I really need to finish this book to get onto some other projects…  I have always had a problem with Direct TV’s marketing standards and practices of luring you in with a very low monthly advertisement that seems impossible to get if you want to watch shows in color.  Direct TV is a pimp selling other peoples goods and products with an extremely low overhead just like all pimps DEMAND.  If you sell a product that isn’t yours then you’re a PIMP!  You are pandering goods.  Well, even though it’s going to be tough to do, like many a ho should, I’m saying goodbye to my PIMP named Direct TV. I’m going to do it!

     When I first bought my home I took a while to settle on cable companies because they all want you to sign a contract.  All good pimps know that the real money is in long term procurements.  I eventually settled on Direct TV due to the fact that they seemed like the lesser of the evils in all of the ‘three’ choices that were available in my neighborhood.  I answered an ad of Direct TV’s that said, ‘$24.95’ a month…  I have never seen a cable bill that was even close to that price.  Apparently, if I wanted the television to be able to turn on and off and for my picture to be in color and blah, blah, blah…  They got me for about a hundred a month with no movie channels.  I did get HBO free for three months though.  It’s like a pimp letting you wear the best dress for the first few months you work for him.

     I spent several phone calls while the pimp explained to me why my monthly payments weren’t anywhere near close to the advertised price and still don’t understand that to this day.  I later purchased a High Definition Television and Direct TV, my pimp, then told me I had to pay FIVE DOLLARS more a month to get a HIGH DEFINITION BOX if I wanted to see my OWN high definition!  This act reminded me of the pimps who use to charge their whores for water when they wanted to wash up!  It was at this point that I wanted OUT!  I realized I had entered into an arrangement with a ruthless, money grubbing, PIMP.  Direct TV, my pimp, told me that if I wanted out I had to pay. 

     Now, like most ho’s know, I was addicted to ‘The Game’ so I couldn’t just leave.  I couldn’t be without my ‘Voice’, or not pay attention to my ‘Housewife’.  How could I ‘Think I Can Dance’ without my ‘Moves Like Jagger’.  One thing I know I would be happy about would be the fact that I wouldn’t have the inclination to indulge in familiar bad habits that the pimp offered like the local ‘Bad Girls Club’; I can surely miss that part of the life.  The main reason resonating in the back of my mind is that I need to finish writing this book.  You can write the book or read the book.  I’m here to do both.

     Well I have been getting close to making the decision to break away from my pimp named Direct TV and lo and behold my pimp has nudged me on…  I guess in some way my pimp cares about me.  My pimp, Direct TV, has chosen to tell several of his clients like MTV, CMT, BET, Nickelodeon, VH1, and others that the deal is not going to change and the prices are going to stay the same for THEIR product…  This is funny to me since my pimp has RAISED my prices!  I am going to leave this dirty money grubbing pimp I swear.  I’m going to DO IT!

     Some people say, ‘It’s hard out here for a pimp’.  Well I say, ‘it’s hard out here for a ho’!  I got needs…  I suffer from addiction.  I’m addicted to enjoyable television in the way most ‘Modern Families’ are…  I know I have to watch my ‘housewife’ at work otherwise she feels neglected.  I just have to tell myself that there are other avenues to fulfill my needs…  There’s always Netflix, DVD’s, and even a friends couch if it gets to that point, but I’m going to do it!

     I just have to get this one last FIX!  You see, ‘Dance Moms’ comes on tonight and I have to see if Chloe or Paige’s mom finally gets a good verbal gut punch in on Abby Lee Miller because it gives me a warm feeling when I see the little guys win once or twice on the reality shows…  I guess I can always go to the networks websites and watch the shows the next day as all of them mostly do.  I’M GOING TO DO IT!

     All in all, I already ‘Know I Can Dance’ and I already knew how to ‘Move Like Jagger’ and I have always had my ‘VOICE’ so I’m going to do it.  I’m going to tell my pimp, DIRECT TV, to take his overpriced plastic boxes and wires and get out of my life.  I’m keeping my money for myself!  I don’t need you Direct TV like you THINK I NEED YOU!  I’m going to DO IT!  I hope I don’t feel like Lonette McKee in ‘Sparkle’ when she told her sister who knocked the cocaine out of her hand and then she scrambled to the floor for the crumbs she could find saying, “Your sister can’t fly on her own wings.”  I can fly.  Like I said, ‘tomorrow’ I’m going to call them and cancel my pimp’s services, I can do it.  I AM GOING TO DO IT!

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What Does God Want?

 

 

WHAT DOES GOD WANT?

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     We all, or I should say a lot of us, constantly, and some only sometimes, ask ourselves, ‘What does God want?’  It is an extremely valid question that anyone with any amount of common sense would ask themselves at least once living in this existence.  A lot of us as children were told that God was in charge of everything and God created everything.  So it made sense to me as a young person taught about God to ask myself and HIM, what did he want?  I was taught that God was a he.  With all of his angry outbursts that I have grown accustomed to I am starting to think that he might be a woman with menstrual cycles, but I digress. 

     So if God created everything, including us, and is in charge of everything, including us, then what does he want?  We start out as babies only concerned with what we want.  Then as our comprehension grows and the fear or love of God is instilled; beliefs can go either way involving fear or love.  But at a certain point when comprehension grows, we usually start to concern ourselves with what God may want as well.  Any fool who has ever read any bible or had a grandmother like mine who had a concrete disposition to constantly remind one of the perils of Hell and damnation would, and will, most likely concern themselves with what God wants.

     This plagued me as a young child because I certainly always wanted to be a winner and I did not want to end up as one of the biggest losers of all time and end up in some burning pit of fire and flames with no rest from the constant heat, no ability to sleep, and no food whatsoever!  It just went on and on…  Forgive me, my grandmother was very descriptive.   So all throughout my life as a logically thinking man I have been planning my strategy for judgment day.  My intention in planning my strategy is of course to make sure that I don’t end up in the burning pit of unending flames with unending pain and an extreme lack of sleep.  Since the act of sleep and rest have always been a true love and passion of mine, I decided a long time ago to have a strategy to make sure that my sleep and I didn’t part eternal ways.  

     My strategy for avoiding the unending fiery pits of hell has changed throughout the years but for the last ten to fifteen years it has been the same.  I was at some social political function and as usual solicited and encouraged a conversation on spirituality.  I have always been fascinated with the afterlife and what happens next because of my strong religious upbringing combined with an inner sense that there is more to this story and existence on Earth than anyone is telling.  It was also a quest to find the truth due to my grandmother’s power to instill a fear of ‘bad living’.  I know there are a couple of examples of ‘bad living’ in that bible where you will see a picture of me as an example and the caption that says, ‘bad living:  don’t be like this fool’. 

     So in living this life of spontaneous moments of ‘bad living’, I would again, constantly seek out help for my legal case that I was clearly preparing for Judgment Day when my trial came up.  I already knew I was going to have to represent myself in this trial because no one else was going to risk their eternal soul on my behalf.  At one point in this life peppered with ‘bad living’ my own family said, “un-huh brother, that’s all you…”  So I know they aren’t going to testify for me.  But my case has been prepared in full and I am pretty sure it won’t even make it to trial.  It won’t go to trial because of what this learned individual told me at this political function.  He told me that there is a religion and faith in South America that believes as long as you make one person smile in your lifetime then you get to GO TO HEAVEN!  That’s it!  I’M IN!!!  Right at that moment and point in time I realized my plan.  On Judgment Day I am going to JUMP in the line with the people from South America who have that belief of ‘making one person smile’ getting you into heaven.  My plan and their rule system is certainly a lot easier to do then the Ten Commandments.  I’m not sure there isn’t one commandment I haven’t broke.  As far as killing is concerned, I use to have a BB gun when I was a little boy; no bird was safe!  Now the people from South America are going to be shorter than me because I am quite tall so on Judgment Day when I sneak in their line I am going to have to duck until I get through the gates.  It’s all comedy, it’s all comedy; until someone ends up in a fiery pit!

     It’s as babies that we are only concerned with what ‘we’ want; then it’s as young adults and hopefully more intelligent beings that some of us try to figure out what God may want.  I believe the true growth point that we should try to evolve to is to have our wants in sync with what God wants.  If the God you believe in is the one I believe in then these wants are all filled with righteousness and love and that’s it.  Until God sits me down and personally tells me this and that, the only thing I can do is live my life righteously and try my best not to intentionally harm anyone.  As long as I don’t intentionally harm anyone I am pretty sure that if on Judgment Day my case does go to trial, I shall come out victorious and free of any burn marks and eating regular food.

     It’s all comedy, it’s all comedy.  Yeah, it’s all fun and games until somebody ends up on their deathbed begging for forgiveness.  Okay ya’ll, I’m going to bed ~ see you tomorrow!

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